Reply To: Lesson 3-6: Discussion Prompt

[Victoria Murphy]

Because I have vertical white boards, I often have a variety of student work/examples. This week, I began a class with a problem about the temperatures where in the end, we were going to talk about dividing negative numbers. We had a couple of different strategies including a group drew a picture first, another group used repeated subtraction and then another actually divided. I talked about each group’s work in the order listed.

In the near future, I plan on using manipulatives to talk about algebraic expressions and how we represent them, what the pieces in an expression mean, and how to combine like terms.